Stefania Spina
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stefania Spina plays a role.
2024 Complexity and accuracy of verbal morphology in written L2 Italian: The role of proficiency and contingency International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: Online-First Articles | Article
The present study aims to verify previous findings on the role of proficiency in the degree of complexity and accuracy of verbal morphemes in written essays from intermediate and advanced L2 Italian learners. In addition, by taking the perspective of usage-based theories on the distributional… read more
2022 The effect of time and dimensions of collocational relationship on phraseological accuracy Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research, Leńko-Szymańska, Agnieszka and Sandra Götz (eds.), pp. 181–208 | Chapter
This study investigates if and to what extent time affects phraseological accuracy in Chinese learners of Italian. The longitudinal analysis focuses on lexical combinations within the adjectival modifier dependency (noun + adjective and adjective + noun) and the verb + direct object dependency.… read more
2013 14. Changing trends in Italian newspaper language: A diachronic, corpus-based study Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Bamford, Julia, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani (eds.), pp. 239–254 | Article
This paper describes changes in the frequency and use of some selected linguistic features in the language of Italian printed news: left dislocations, sentence-initial connectives, sentence length, lexical density and subordinating conjunctions. The study adopts a diachronic approach and relies on… read more
Intensification in written L2 Italian: Insights from the multilingual region of South Tyrol International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: Online-First Articles | Article
The present study compares the use of adjective intensification in written L2 Italian production in South Tyrolean upper secondary schools with that of young Italian native speakers. By relying on a Diasystematic Construction Grammar approach, it explores the role of learners’ L1s, L2… read more